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The Annotated Book of DzyanbyFrater Apollonius4 7 A A COSMIC EVOLUTIONIn Seven Stanzas translated from the Book of DzyanBy Madam Helena Petrovna BlavatskyAll text In Blue are HPB’s Synopsis for each of the stanzas.Liber Tetragrammaton is an exceptionally similar document to this book and works as a marvelous compliment. Selectedverses will be included in green, below.STANZA IStanza -1- describes the state of the ONE ALL during Pralaya, before the firstflutter of reawakening Manifestation.A moment's thought shows that such a state can only be symbolized; to describeit, is impossible. Nor can it be symbolized except in negatives; for, since it is thestate of Absoluteness per se, it can possess none of those specific attributeswhich serve us to describe objects in positive terms. Hence that state can only besuggested by the negatives of all those most abstract attributes which men feelrather than conceive, as the remotest limits attainable by their power ofconception.1. THE ETERNAL PARENT WRAPPED IN HER EVER INVISIBLE ROBESHAD SLUMBERED ONCE AGAIN FOR SEVEN ETERNITIES.
0/1 (Number Zero/First Trigram)***Here is Nothing under its three forms. It is not, yet informeth all things.2. TIME WAS NOT, FOR IT LAY ASLEEP IN THE INFINITE BOSOM OFDURATION.3. UNIVERSAL MIND WAS NOT, FOR THERE WERE NO AH-HI TO CONTAINIT.4. THE SEVEN WAYS TO BLISS WERE NOT. THE GREAT CAUSES OFMISERY WERE NOT, FOR THERE WAS NO ONE TO PRODUCE AND GETENSNARED BY THEM.5. DARKNESS ALONE FILLED THE BOUNDLESS ALL, FOR FATHER,MOTHER AND SON WERE ONCE MORE ONE, AND THE SON HAD NOTAWAKENED YET FOR THE NEW WHEEL, AND HIS PILGRIMAGE THEREON.6. THE SEVEN SUBLIME LORDS AND THE SEVEN TRUTHS HAD CEASEDTO BE, AND THE UNIVERSE, THE SON OF NECESSITY, WAS IMMERSED INPARANISHPANNA, TO BE OUTBREATHED BY THAT WHICH IS AND YET ISNOT. NAUGHT WAS.7. THE CAUSES OF EXISTENCE HAD BEEN DONE AWAY WITH; THEVISIBLE THAT WAS, AND THE INVISIBLE THAT IS, RESTED IN ETERNALNON-BEING -- THE ONE BEING.
8. ALONE THE ONE FORM OF EXISTENCE STRETCHED BOUNDLESS,INFINITE, CAUSELESS, IN DREAMLESS SLEEP; AND LIFE PULSATEDUNCONSCIOUS IN UNIVERSAL SPACE, THROUGHOUT THAT ALLPRESENCE WHICH IS SENSED BY THE OPENED EYE OF THE DANGMA.9. BUT WHERE WAS THE DANGMA WHEN THE ALAYA OF THE UNIVERSEWAS IN PARAMARTHA AND THE GREAT WHEEL WAS ANUPADAKA?STANZA IIStanza -2- describes a stage which, to a Western mind, is so nearly identical withthat mentioned in Stanza I., that to express the idea of its difference wouldrequire a treatise in itself Hence it must be left to the intuition and the higherfaculties of the reader to grasp, as far as he can,the meaning of the allegoricalphrases used. Indeed, it must be remembered that all these Stanzas appeal tothe inner faculties rather than to the ordinary comprehension of the physicalbrain.1. . . . WHERE WERE THE BUILDERS, THE LUMINOUS SONS OFMANVANTARIC DAWN? . . . IN THE UNKNOWN DARKNESS IN THEIR AH-HIPARANISHPANNA. THE PRODUCERS OF FORM FROM NO-FORM -- THEROOT OF THE WORLD -- THE DEVAMATRI AND SVABHAVAT, RESTED INTHE BLISS OF NON-BEING.2. . . . WHERE WAS SILENCE? WHERE THE EARS TO SENSE IT? NO,THERE WAS NEITHER SILENCE NOR SOUND; NAUGHT SAVE CEASELESSETERNAL BREATH, WHICH KNOWS ITSELF NOT.3. THE HOUR HAD NOT YET STRUCK; THE RAY HAD NOT YET FLASHEDINTO THE GERM; THE MATRIPADMA HAD NOT YET SWOLLEN.4. HER HEART HAD NOT YET OPENED FOR THE ONE RAY TO ENTER,THENCE TO FALL, AS THREE INTO FOUR, INTO THE LAP OF MAYA.
5. THE SEVEN SONS WERE NOT YET BORN FROM THE WEB OF LIGHT.DARKNESS ALONE WAS FATHER-MOTHER, SVABHAVAT; ANDSVABHAVAT WAS IN DARKNESS.6. THESE TWO ARE THE GERM, AND THE GERM IS ONE. THE UNIVERSEWAS STILL CONCEALED IN THE DIVINE THOUGHT AND THE DIVINEBOSOM. . . .1H/2**—Now cometh the glory of the Single One, as an imperfection and stain.STANZA IIIStanza -3- describes the Reawakening of the Universe to life after Pralaya. Itdepicts the emergence of the Monads from their state of absorption within theOne,the earliest and highest stage in the formation of Worlds - the term Monadbeing one which may apply equally to the vastest Solar System or the tiniestatom.1. . . . THE LAST VIBRATION OF THE SEVENTH ETERNITY THRILLSTHROUGH INFINITUDE. THE MOTHER SWELLS, EXPANDING FROM WITHINWITHOUT, LIKE THE BUD OF THE LOTUS.2. THE VIBRATION SWEEPS ALONG, TOUCHING WITH ITS SWIFT WINGTHE WHOLE UNIVERSE AND THE GERM THAT DWELLETH INDARKNESS: THE DARKNESS THAT BREATHES OVER THESLUMBERING WATERS OF LIFE. . .3. DARKNESS RADIATES LIGHT, AND LIGHT DROPS ONE SOLITARYRAY INTO THE MOTHER-DEEP. THE RAY SHOOTS THROUGH THE
VIRGIN EGG, THE RAY CAUSES THE ETERNAL EGG TO THRILL, ANDDROP THE NON-ETERNAL GERM, WHICH CONDENSES INTO THEWORLD-EGG.2A/3**-But by the Weak One the Mother was it equilibrated.4. THEN THE THREE FALL INTO THE FOUR. THE RADIANT ESSENCEBECOMES SEVEN INSIDE, SEVEN OUTSIDE. THE LUMINOUS EGG, WHICHIN ITSELF IS THREE, CURDLES AND SPREADS IN MILK-WHITE CURDSTHROUGHOUT THE DEPTHS OF MOTHER, THE ROOT THAT GROWS INTHE DEPTHS OF THE OCEAN OF LIFE.5. THE ROOT REMAINS, THE LIGHT REMAINS, THE CURDS REMAIN, ANDSTILL OEAOHOO IS ONE.The obvious allusion is to IAO, the name of God for the ancient Gnostics. In hercomment to Verse 7, Blavatsky writes:"Bright Space, Son of Dark Space," corresponds to the Ray dropped at the first thrill of the new Dawn intothe great Cosmic depths, from which it re-emerges differentiated as "Oeaohoo, the Younger" (the "newLIFE"), to become to the end of the LIfe-Cycle the Germ of all things. He is "the Incorporeal Man whocontains in himself the Divine Idea," the generator of Light and Life, to use an expression of PhiloJudaeus. He is called the "Blazing Dragon of Wisdom," because, first, he is that which the Greekphilosophers called the Logos, the Verum of the Thought Divine; and secondly, because in EsotericPhilosophy this first manifestation, begin the synthesis or the aggregate of Universal Wisdom, Oeaohoo,the "Son of the Sun," contains in himself the Seven Creative Hosts (The Sephiroth), and is thus the essenceof manifested Wisdom. "He who bathes in the light of Oeaohoo will never be deceived by the veil ofMaya."Combining these thoughts with the N.O.X. ideas I've presented in my other post thismorning, there's something profound in Blavatsky's commentary to Verse 7:The higher gods of antiquity are all "Sons of the Mother" before they become "Sons of the Father." TheLogoi, like Jupiter or Zeus, son of Kronos-Saturn, "Infinite Time" (Kala), in the origin were represented asmale-female. Zeus is said to be the "beautiful Virgin," and Venus is made bearded. Apollo was originallybi-sexual, so is Brahma-Vach in Manu and the Puranas. Osiris in interchangeable with Isis, and Horus isof both sexes. Finally in St. John's vision in Revelation, the Logos, who is now connected with Jesus, ishermaphrodite, for he is described as having female breasts. So also is Tetragrammaton Jehovah. Butthere are to Avalokiteshvaras in Esotericism: the First and the Second Logos.In Crowley's commentary to AL:I.7 ("Behold! it is revealed by Aiwass the minister ofHoor-paar-kraat.") we find a reference to the Devil Atu per my other post in N.O.X.:
Aiwass is the name given by Ouarda the Seer as that of the Intelligence Communicating. See note to Title.Hoor-paar-Kraat or Harpocrates, the "Babe in the Egg of Blue", is not merely the God of Silence in aconventional sense. He represents the Higher Self, the Holy Guardian Angel. The connection is with thesymbolism of the Dwarf in Mythology. He contains everything in Himself, but is unmanifested. See II:8.He is the First Letter of the Alphabet, Aleph, whose number is One, and his card in the Tarot is TheFool, numbered Zero. Aleph is attributed to the "Element" (in the old classification of things) of Air. Nowas "One" or Aleph he represents the Male Principle, the First Cause, and the free breath of Life, the soundof the vowel A being made with the open throat and mouth.As Zero he represents the female Principle, the fertile Mother. (An old name for the card is Mat, fromthe Italian 'Matto', fool, but earlier also from Maut, the Egyptian Vulture-Mother-Goddess). Fertile, for the'Egg of Blue' is the Uterus, and in the Macrocosm the Body of Nuith, and it contains the Unborn Babe,helpless yet protected and nourished against the crocodiles and tigers shown on the card, just as the wombis sealed during gestation. He sits on a lotus, the yoni. which floats on the 'Nile', the amniotic fluid.In his absolute innocence and ignorance he is "The Fool"; he is the 'Saviour', being the Son who shalltrample on the crocodiles and tigers, and avenge his father Osiris. Thus we see him as the "Great Fool" ofCeltic legend, the "Pure Fool" of Act I of "Parsifal", and, generally speaking, the insane person whosewords have always been taken for oracles.But to be 'Saviour' he must be born and grow to manhood; thus Parsifal acquires the Sacred Lance,emblem of virility. He usually wears the 'Coat of many colours' like Joseph the 'dreamer'; so he is also nowthe Green Man of spring festivals. But his 'folly' is now not innocence but inspiration of wine; he drinksfrom the Graal, offered to him by the Priestess.So we see him fully armed as Bacchus Diphues, male and female in one, bearing the Thyrsus-rod, anda cluster of grapes or a wineskin, while a tiger leaps up by his side. This form is suggested in the Tarocard, where 'The fool' is shown with a long wand and carrying a sack; his coat is motley. Tigers andCrocodiles follow him, thus linking this image with that of Harpocrates.Almost identical symbols are those of the secret God of the Templars, the bi-sexual Baphomet, and of ZeusArrhenothelus, equally bi-sexual, the Father-Mother of All in One Person. (He is shown in this full form inthe Tarot Trump XV, "the Devil".) Now Zeus being lord of Air, we are reminded that Aleph is the letter ofAir.6. THE ROOT OF LIFE WAS IN EVERY DROP OF THE OCEAN OFIMMORTALITY, AND THE OCEAN WAS RADIANT LIGHT, WHICH WAS FIRE,AND HEAT, AND MOTION. DARKNESS VANISHED AND WAS NO MORE; ITDISAPPEARED IN ITS OWN ESSENCE, THE BODY OF FIRE AND WATER,OR FATHER AND MOTHER.From Blavatsky’s commentary:The essence of Darkness being Absolute Light, Darkness is taken as the appropriate allegoricalrepresentation of the condition of the Universe during Pralya, or the term of Absolute Rest, or Non-Being,as it appears to our finite minds. The "Fire, and Head, and Motion," here spoken of, are, of course, not thefire, heat, and motion of physical science, but the underlying abstractions, the noumena, or the soul, of theessence of these material manifestations--the "things in themselves," which, as modern science confesses,entirely elude the instruments of the laboratory, and which even the mind cannot grasp, although it canequally as little avoid the conclusions the these underlying essences of things must exist. "Fire and Water,or Father and Mother [1]" (See "Kwan-Shi-Yin [2]." The real name from the text cannot be given.), unionwith Spirit obtaining sense, shone with pleasure, and thus was produced the Protogonos (the first-bornLight)," says a fragment of Hermas. Damascius calls it Dis, in Theogany, the "Disposer of all things."
According to the Rosicrucian tenets, as handled and explained by the profane for once correctly, of onlyparitally, "Light and Darkness are identical in themselves, being only divisible in the human mind;" andaccording to Robert Fludd, "Darkness adopted illumination in order to make itself visible." According tothetenets of Eastern Occultism, DARKNESS is the one true actuality, the basis and the root of Light [3],without which the latter could never manifest itself, or even exist. Light is Matter, and DARKNESS pureSpirit [4]. Darkness, in its radical, metaphysical basis, is subjective and absolute Light; while the latter inall its seeming effulgence and glory is merely a mass of shadows, as it can never be eternal, and is simplyan Illusion, or Maya.Even in the mind-baffling and science-harassing Genesis, light is created out of darkness-- "and darknesswas upon the face of the deep" --and not vice versa. "In him [in darkness] was life; an the life was the lightof men (John, i. 4) A day may come when the eyes of men will be opened; and then they may comprehendbetter than they do now the verse in the Gospel of John that says, "And the light shineth in darkness; andthe darkness comprehendeth it not." They will see then the word "darkness" does not apply to man'sspiritual eye-sight, but indeed to "Darkness," the Absolute, that comprehendeth not (cannot cognoze)transient Light, however transcendent to human eyes. Demon est Deus inversus. The Devil is not calledDarkness by the Church, whereas in the Bible, in the Book of Job, his is callled the "Son of God," the brightstar of the early morning, Lucifer. There is a whole philosophy of dogmatic craft in the reason why the firstAchangel, who sprang from the depths of Chaos, wsa called Lux (Lucifer), the "Luminous Son of theMorning," or Manvantaric Dawn. He has beeen transformed by the Church into Lucifer or Satan, becausehis is higher and older than Jehovah, and had to be sacrificed to the new dogma.Here‟s A few comments on Blavatsky‟s commentary from the text that are rendered inred:1. The reference to Mother and Father is consistent with the N.O.X. signs that alsoinclude Son and Daughter.2. Kwan Shi-Yin reminds me of a CF Russell work (below). After reading this,Blavatsky's comment to Verse 7 will have an added impact:"Kwan-Shai-Yin" is identical with, and an equivalent of the Sanskrit Avalokiteshvara, and as such is anandrogynous deity like the Tetragrammaton and all the Logoi of antiquity. It is only by some sects inChina that he is anthropomorphized,and represened with female attributes; under his female apsectbecming Kwan-Yin, the Goddess of Mercy, called the "Divine Voice." (The Gnostic Sophia, "Wisdom,"who is the"Mother" of the Ogdoad [Aditi, in a certain sense, with her eight sones), is the Holy Gost and theCreator of all, as in the ancient systems. The "Father" is a far later invention. The earliest manifestedLogos was female everywhere--the mother of the seven planetary powers.
3. Darkness being the root of light seems to parallel modern discoveries of Dark Matterand Dark Energy.4. Yes, the small part of the Universe that we've known.light and matter.and of course,then Darkness is spirit; a truth of which these ignorant cursed philosophies in AL preachthe opposite. So not only their ego-losing position is abhorent, but also their concept oflight. It seems that Crowley and Blavatsky have figured this out.perhaps even KennethGrant.
5. This is part of the clever lie of the Roman church that Crowley discusses in his articleon the Devil Atu in the Book of Thoth. I'll provide a few quotes from that essay:The card represents Pan PangenetorHis creative energy is veiled in the symbol of the Wand of the Chief Adept, crowned with the winged globeand the twin serpents of Horus and Osiris.It is further to be remarked that the trunk of the Tree pierces the heavens; about it is indicated the ring ofthe body of Nuith. Similarly, the shaft of the Wand goes down indefinitely to the centre of earth. "If I lift upmy head, I and my Nuit are one. If I droop down mine head, and shoot forth venom, then is rapture of theearth, and I and the earth are one." (AL. II, 26).It is important to notice some other correspondences. The three vowel-consonants of the Hebrew alphabet,Aleph, Yod, 'Ayin, these three letters form the sacred name of God, I A O.Also, in Crowley's essay on the Universe Atu we find:It becomes then reasonable to argue from analogy that since the end must beget the beginning, thesymbolism will follow; hence, blackness is also attributed to the sun, according to a certain long- hiddentradition. One of the shocks for candidates in the "Mysteries" was the revelation "Osiris is a black god".As a side-bar, it is interesting that the Christist-affliced Samael Aun Weor group wouldpreach that intellectualism is evil.fearing the "Devil" like most Christist philosophies.Here's another paragraph from Crowley's essay on the Devil Atu.On the Tree of Life, Atu XIII and XV are symmetrically placed; they lead from Tiphareth, the humanconsciousness, to the spheres in which Thought (on the one hand) and Bliss (on the other) are developed.Between them, Atu XIV leads similarly to the sphere which formulates Existence. (See note on Atu X andarrangement.) These three cards may therefore be summed up as a hieroglyph of the processes by whichidea manifests as form.For that matter, check out his essay on the Hanged Man Atu:This card is beautiful in a strange, immemorial, moribund manner. It is the card of the Dying God; itsimportance in the present pack is merely that of the Cenotaph. It says: "If ever things get bad like thatagain, in the new Dark Ages which appear to threaten, this is the way to put things right." But if things haveto be put right, it shows that they are very wrong. It should be the chieftest aim of the wise to rid mankindof the insolence of self-sacrifice, of the calamity of chastity; faith must be slain by certainty, and chastityby ecstasy.7. BEHOLD, OH LANOO! THE RADIANT CHILD OF THE TWO, THEUNPARALLELED REFULGENT GLORY: BRIGHT SPACE SON OF DARKSPACE, WHICH EMERGES FROM THE DEPTHS OF THE GREAT DARKWATERS. IT IS OEAOHOO THE YOUNGER, THE * * * HE SHINES FORTH ASTHE SON; HE IS THE BLAZING DIVINE DRAGON OF WISDOM; THE ONE ISFOUR, AND FOUR TAKES TO ITSELF THREE, AND THE UNION PRODUCESTHE SAPTA, IN WHOM ARE THE SEVEN WHICH BECOME THE TRIDASA(OR THE HOSTS AND THE MULTITUDES). BEHOLD HIM LIFTING THE VEILAND UNFURLING IT FROM EAST TO WEST. HE SHUTS OUT THE ABOVE,AND LEAVES THE BELOW TO BE SEEN AS THE GREAT ILLUSION. HE
MARKS THE PLACES FOR THE SHINING ONES, AND TURNS THE UPPERINTO A SHORELESS SEA OF FIRE, AND THE ONE MANIFESTED INTO THEGREAT WATERS.3D/4*—*Also the purity was divided by Strength, the force of the Demiurge.8. WHERE WAS THE GERM AND WHERE WAS NOW DARKNESS? WHEREIS THE SPIRIT OF THE FLAME THAT BURNS IN THY LAMP, OH LANOO?THE GERM IS THAT, AND THAT IS LIGHT, THE WHITE BRILLIANT SON OFTHE DARK HIDDEN FATHER.9. LIGHT IS COLD FLAME, AND FLAME IS FIRE, AND FIRE PRODUCESHEAT, WHICH YIELDS WATER: THE WATER OF LIFE IN THE GREATMOTHER.10. FATHER-MOTHER SPIN A WEB WHOSE UPPER END IS FASTENED TOSPIRIT -- THE LIGHT OF THE ONE DARKNESS -- AND THE LOWER ONE TOITS SHADOWY END, MATTER; AND THIS WEB IS THE UNIVERSE SPUNOUT OF THE TWO SUBSTANCES MADE IN ONE, WHICH IS SVABHAVAT.4T/5*-*And the Cross was formulated in the Universe that as yet was not.11. IT EXPANDS WHEN THE BREATH OF FIRE IS UPON IT; IT CONTRACTSWHEN THE BREATH OF THE MOTHER TOUCHES IT. THEN THE SONSDISSOCIATE AND SCATTER, TO RETURN INTO THEIR MOTHER'S BOSOMAT THE END OF THE GREAT DAY, AND RE-BECOME ONE WITH HER;
WHEN IT IS COOLING IT BECOMES RADIANT, AND THE SONS EXPANDAND CONTRACT THROUGH THEIR OWN SELVES AND HEARTS; THEYEMBRACE INFINITUDE.12. THEN SVABHAVAT SENDS FOHAT TO HARDEN THE ATOMS. EACH IS APART OF THE WEB. REFLECTING THE "SELF-EXISTENT LORD" LIKE AMIRROR, EACH BECOMES IN TURN A WORLD.5E/6—**But now the Imperfection became manifest, presiding over the fading of perfection.STANZA IVStanza -4- shows the differentiation of the "Germ" of the Universe into theSeptenary Hierarchy of conscious Divine Powers,which are the activemanifestations of the One Supreme Energy. They are the framers, shapers, andultimately the creators of all the manifested Universe, in the only sense in whichthe name "creator" is intelligible; they inform and guide it; they are the intelligentBeings who adjust and control evolution, embodying in themselves thosemanifestations of the One Law, which we know as the "Laws of Nature".Generally, they are known as the Dhyan Chohans, through each of the variousgroups has its own designation in the Secret Doctrine.This stage of evolution is spoken of in Hindu mythology as the "Creation of theGods".1. . . . LISTEN, YE SONS OF THE EARTH, TO YOUR INSTRUCTORS -- THESONS OF THE FIRE. LEARN, THERE IS NEITHER FIRST NOR LAST, FORALL IS ONE: NUMBER ISSUED FROM NO NUMBER.2. LEARN WHAT WE WHO DESCEND FROM THE PRIMORDIAL SEVEN, WEWHO ARE BORN FROM THE PRIMORDIAL FLAME, HAVE LEARNT FROMOUR FATHERS. . . .
3. FROM THE EFFULGENCY OF LIGHT -- THE RAY OF THE EVERDARKNESS -- SPRUNG IN SPACE THE RE-AWAKENED ENERGIES; THEONE FROM THE EGG, THE SIX, AND THE FIVE. THEN THE THREE, THEONE, THE FOUR, THE ONE, THE FIVE -- THE TWICE SEVEN THE SUMTOTAL. AND THESE ARE THE ESSENCES, THE FLAMES, THE ELEMENTS,THE BUILDERS, THE NUMBERS, THE ARUPA, THE RUPA, AND THE FORCEOF DIVINE MAN -- THE SUM TOTAL. AND FROM THE DIVINE MANEMANATED THE FORMS, THE SPARKS, THE SACRED ANIMALS, AND THEMESSENGERS OF THE SACRED FATHERS WITHIN THE HOLY FOUR.From Blavatsky’s Commentary:"The Three, the One, the Four, the One, the Five" (in their totality--Twice Seven) represent 31415--thenumerical Hierarchy of the Dhyan Chohans of various orders, and the inner or circumscribed world. (Thereader may be told an American Kabalist has now discovered the same number for the Elohim. It came tothe Jews from Chadaea. See "Hebrew Metrology," in The Masonic Review, July, 1885, McMillan Lodge,No. 141.).this number, when not enlarged by permutation and expansion, is ever 31415, anagrammaticallyand Kabalistically, being both the number of hte Circle and the mystic Svastika, the "Twice Seven" oncemore; for whtatever way the two sets of figures are counted, when added separately, one figure afteranother, whether crossways from right or from left, they will always yield fourteen. Mathematically theyrepresent the well-known mathematical formula, namely the radius of the diameter of a circle to thecircumference.(pi).And it may be shown that Mr. Ralston Skinner, the author of the Source of measures,reads the Hebrew word Alhim in the same number values--by omitting, as siad, the ciphers, and bypermutation--13514; since [aleph] (a) is 1; [lamed] (l) is 3(30); [heh] (h) is 5; [yod] (i) is 1(10); and [mem](m) is 4(40); and anagrammatically--31415, as explained by him.Thus, while in the metaphysical world, the Circle with the one central Point in it has no number, and iscalled Anupadaka--parentless and numberless, for it can fall under no calculation,--in the manifested world,the Mundane Egg or Circle is circumscribed within the groups called the Line, the Triangle, the Pentagram,the second Line and the Square (or13514); and when the Point has generated a Line, and thus becomes adiameter which stands for the androgynous Logos, then the figures becomes 31415, or a triangle, a line, asquare, a second line, and a pentagram. "When the Son separates from the Mother he becomes the Father,"the diameter standing for Nature, or the feminine principle. Therefore it is said: "In the World of Being, theOne Point fructifies the Line, the Virgin Matrix of Kosmos [the egg-shaped zero], and the immaculateMother gives birth to the Form that combines all forms." Prajapati is called the first procreating male, and"his mother's husband." (We find the same expression in Egypt. Mout signifies, for one hting, "Mother,"and shows the character assigned to her in the triad of the country. She was no less the mother than thewife of Ammon, one of the principal titles of the god being "the husband of his mother." The goddessMout, or Mut, is addressed as "Our Lady," the "Queen of Heaven" and "of the Earth," thus "sharing thesetitles with the other mother goddesses, Isis, Hathor, etc." [Maspero]). This gives the key-note to all thelater "Divine Sons" from "Immaculate Mothers."This of course, is reminiscent of Crowley's essay on the Formula of Alhim:"ALHIM", (Elohim) is the exoteric word for Gods. "Gods" are the Forces of Nature; their "Names" arethe Laws of Nature. Thus They are eternal, omnipotent, omnipresent and so on; and thus their "Wills" areimmutable and absolute. It is the masculine plural of a feminine noun, but its nature is principallyfeminine. It is a perfect hieroglyph of the number 5. This should be studied in "A Note on Genesis"(Equinox I, II).
The Elements are all represented, as in Tetragrammaton, but there is no development from one into theothers. They are, as it were, thrown together --- untamed, only sympathising by virtue of their wild andstormy but elastically resistless energy. The Central letter is "He" --- the letter of breath --- and representsSpirit. The first letter "Aleph" is the natural letter of Air, and the Final "Mem" is the natural letter of Water.Together, "Aleph" and "Mem" make "Am" --- the mother within whose womb the Cosmos is conceived.But "Yod" is not the natural letter of Fire. Its juxtaposition with "He" sanctifies that fire to the "Yod" ofTetragrammaton. Similarly we find "Lamed" for Earth, where we should expect Tau --- in order toemphasize the influence of Venus, who rules Libra."ALHIM", therefore, represents rather the formula of Consecration than that of a complete ceremony. It isthe breath of benediction, yet so potent that it can give life to clay and light to darkness.In consecrating a weapon, "Aleph" is the whirling force of the thunderbolt, the lightning which flameth outof the East even into the West. This is the gift of the wielding of the thunderbolt of Zeus or Indra, the godof Air. "Lamed" is the Ox-goad, the driving force; and it is also the Balance, representing the truth and loveof the Magician. It is the loving care which he bestows upon perfecting his instruments, and theequilibration of that fierce force which initiates the ceremony."Yod" is the creative energy-the procreative power: and yet "Yod" is the solitude and silence of thehermitage into which the Magician has shut himself. "Mem" is the letter of water, and it is the Mem final,whose long flat lines suggest the Sea at Peace; not the ordinary (initial and medial) Mem whose hieroglyphis a wave. And then, in the Centre of all, broods Spirit, which combines the mildness of the Lamb with thehorns of the Ram, and is the letter of Bacchus or "Christ".After the magician has created his instrument, and balanced it truly, and filled it with the lightnings of hisWill, then is the weapon laid away to rest; and in this Silence, a true Consecration comes.Together, we have an expansion on this formula connecting Crowley's note that the godsare the creative expression of the laws of nature with the mathematical or geometricalexpression of the same in Blavatsky's essay.4. THIS WAS THE ARMY OF THE VOICE -- THE DIVINE MOTHER OFTHE SEVEN. THE SPARKS OF THE SEVEN ARE SUBJECT TO, ANDTHE SERVANTS OF, THE FIRST, THE SECOND, THE THIRD, THEFOURTH, THE FIFTH, THE SIXTH, AND THE SEVENTH OF THESEVEN. THESE "SPARKS" ARE CALLED SPHERES, TRIANGLES,CUBES, LINES, AND MODELLERS; FOR THUS STANDS THEETERNAL NIDANA -- THE OEAOHOO, WHICH IS:6M/7-**Also the Woman arose, and veiled the Upper Heaven with her body of stars.
Blavatsky's footnote to OEAOHOO: The literal signification of the word is, among the EasternOccultists of the North, a circular wind, whirlwind; but in this instance, it is a term to denote the ceaselessand eternal Cosmic Motion or rather the Force that moves it, which Force is tacitly accepted as the Deity,but never named. It is the eternal Karana, the ever-acting Cause. [See Chhandogya Upanishad, Chap. 1,Section XIII, V. 1-3. The three verses give, in cryptic language, the complete outline of all that is theresummarized in the first paragraph.]And in Blavatsky's commentary to the second sentence of the verse, she writes:Next we see Cosmic Matter scattering and forming itself into Elements; grouped itn othe mystic Fourwithin the fifth Element--Ether, the "lining" of Akasha, the Anima Mundi, or Mother of Cosmos. "Dots,Lines, Triangles, Cubes, Circles" and finally "Sphere"--why or how? Because, says the Commentary, suchis the first law of Nature, and because Nature geometrizes universally in all her manifestations. There is aninherent law--not only in the primordial, but also in the manifested matter of our phenomenal plane--bywhich Nature correlates her geometrical forms, and later, also, her compound elements, and in which alsothere is no place for accident or chance. It is a fundamental law in Occultism, that there is no rest orcessation of motion in Nature. (It is the knowledge of this law the permits and helps the Arhat to performhis Siddhis, or various phenomena, such as the disintegration of matter, the transport of objects from oneplace to another, etc.) That which seems rest is only the change of one form into another, the change ofsubstance going hand in hand with that of form--as we are taught in Occult physics, which thus seem tohave anticipated the discover of the "conservation of matter" by a considerable time. Says the ancientCommenatary (These are ancient Commentaries attached with modern Glossaries to the STANZAS, for theCommentaries in their symbolical language are usually as difficult to understand as the STANZASthemselves.) to STANZA 4:The Mother is the fiery Fish of Life. She scatters her spawn and the Breath [Moon] heats and quickens it.The grains {of spawn} are soon attracted to each other and form the curds in the Ocean [of Space]. Thelarger lumps coalesce and receive new spawn--in fiery dots, triangles and cubes, which ripen, and at theappointed time some of the lumps detach themselves and assume spheroidal form, a process which tehyeffect only when not interfered with by teh others. After which, Law No. * * * comes into operation. Mtion[the Breath] becomes the whirlwind and sets them into rotation. (In a polimical scientific work, the ModernGenesis (p. 48), the Rev. W.B. Slaughter, criticizing the position assumed by the astronomers, asks: "It is tobe regretted that the advocates of this [nebular] theory have not entered more largely into the discussion ofit [the origin of rotary motion]. No one condescends to give us the rational of it. How does the process ofcooling and contracting the mass impart to it a rot
The Annotated Book of Dzyan by . Almost identical symbols are those of the secret God of the Templars, the bi-sexual Baphomet, and of Zeus Arrhenothelus, equally bi-sexual, the Father-Mother of All in One Person. (He is shown in this full form in the Tarot Trump XV, "the Devil".) Now Zeus
